KURMASANA 2
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Pranayama
Kākacañcu Kumbhaka
Hathatatva Kaumudi
12.18
Bandha Mula Bandha Yoga Sikh Upanishad
Japa
Om Nithyananda
ParamaShivoham
- From Padmasana.
- Insert both hands through the thighs and calves.
- Bend elbows and hold respective shoulders with hands.
Visualize you're a turtle, a stable body and mind to live for hundreds of years
Gaze
Mudra Shambhavi Mudra Mandala Brahmana-Upanishad Verse 3.5
Asana
KURMASANA 2
Āpta Pramāṇa – आप्त
प्रमाण
Joga Manjari 11.54–55
बांई जंघ पर दक्षिण पाव, दाहिणी
जंघ पर बांई ल्याव ।
पहल्या अंस्रघालै हाथ ॥५४॥
कूर्म आसन् येह कहावै, यासौँ सब
इन्द्री सकुचावै ।
देही कि रग सीधी होई, यह करम की
गति साधै कोई॥५५॥
bāṃī jaṃgha para dakṣiṇa pāva,
dāhiṇī jaṃgha para bāṃī lyāvai
pahalyā aṃsraghālai hātha ॥54
॥
kūrama āsana yeha kahāvai,
yāsauṃ saba indrī sakucāvai ।
dehī ki raga sīdhī hoī, yaha
karama kī gati sādhai koī॥55॥
AKASHIC REVELATION
Place right foot over left thigh
and left foot over right. Insert
both hands through thighs and
calves. Hold the shoulders with
hands.
Pranayama
KAKACANCU KUMBHAKA
Āpta Pramāṇa – आप्त
प्रमाण
Hathatatvakaumudi 12.18
राजदन्तयुगुलान्तमस्पृशन्
सन्निधाय रसनां तदन्तिके ॥
काकचञ्चुपुटमारुतं पिबेत्
प्राणसंयमनमेतदुत्तमम् ॥
१८ ॥
rājadantayugulāntamaspṛśa
n sannidhāya rasanāṃ
tadantike ॥
kākacañcupuṭamārutaṃ
pibet
prāṇasaṃyamanametadutta
mam ॥ 18 ॥
AKASHIC REVELATION
Without touching the front
teeth and placing the
tongue near them, one
should draw the air in by
making the lips like the
beak of a crow. This is a
superior practice of
Pranayama.
Mudra
SHAMBHAVI MUDRA
Śāstra Pramāṇa
Mandala
Brahmanopanishad 3.5
लक्ष्येऽन्तर्बाह्यायां
दृष्टौ निमेषोन्मेषवर्जितायां
चे इयं
शांभवी मुद्रा भवति ।
सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या
महाविद्या भवति । तज्ज्ञानेन
संसारनिवृत्तिः । तत्पूजनं
मोक्षफलदम् ॥ ५ ॥
lakṣye'ntarbāhyāyāṃ dṛṣṭau
nimeṣonmeṣavarjitāyāṃ ca
iyaṃ
śāmbhavī mudrā bhavati |
sarvatantreṣu gopyā
mahāvidyā bhavati |
tajjñānena saṃsāranivṛttiḥ |
tatpūjanaṃ mokṣaphaladam ॥
5 ॥
AKASHIC REVELATION
Fixing the gaze inwards
into the inner space and
with the eyes opening out,
but devoid of the acts of
opening and closing of the
eyelids, this Shambhavi–
mudra is assumed. This
mahā-vidya (the great
ultimate source knowledge)
is, of all the Tantras, what
is kept a profound secret.
With the experiential
knowledge of this, is
attained freedom and
completion from the state
of worldly existence. By its
worship, is bestowed the
fruit of liberation.
Bandha
MULA BANDHA
Śāstra Pramāṇa – शास्त्र
प्रमाण
Yoga Sikhopanishad 104 – 105
गुदं पाष्ण्या तु संपीड्य
वायुमाकुञ्चयेद् बलात् ।
वारं वारं यथा चोर्ध्वं समायाति
समीरनः ॥ १०४ ॥
प्राणापानौ नान्दबिन्दू
मूलबन्धेन च्ऐकताम् ।
गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धिं
यच्छतो नात्र संशयः ॥ १०५ ॥
gudaṃ pārṣṇyā tu sampīḍya
vāyumākuñcayed balāt |
vāraṃ vāraṃ yathā cordhvaṃ
samāyāti samīraṇaḥ ॥ 104 ॥
prāṇāpānau nāndabindū
mūlabandhena caikatām |
gatvā Yogasya saṃsiddhiṃ
yacchato nātra saṃśayaḥ ॥ 105 ॥
AKASHIC REVELATION
Pressing the anus with the heel,
(the practitioner) should forcibly
draw up the vital air in such a
way that the air would move
upwards stage by stage. The
Prana and Apana (vital airs), as
also the Nada (Intellect) and the
Bindu (mind), becoming one by
means of the Mula–bandha,
bestow the successful
accomplishment of Yoga. Herein
there is no doubt.
290.